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The State of Media Freedom in Armenia 2013 Core Problems and Challengies THE STATE OF MEDIA FREEDOM IN ARMENIA 2013 CORE PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGIES Investigative Journalists NGO Yerevan 2013 This publication has been made possible by support from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Office in Yerevan. The views expressed herein are those of the Investigative Journalists NGO and do not necessarily reflect the views of the OSCE. “The State of Media Freedom in Armenia 2013: Core problems and challenges”: Investigative Journalists NGO, Yerevan, 2013. This book, prepared by the Investigative Journalists NGO, summarizes the main challenges facing reporters and news outlets in Armenia in 2013. These challenges appear in the form of physical violence, pressure tactics and legal suits filed against them. Other challenges to the development of the media sector in Armenia have also been looked at – unhealthy competition, a shrinking print media due to technological advances, a lack of professionalism, etc. It is intended for reporters, attorneys, professionals dealing with freedom of speech/media issues, students of journalism, and the general reading public. ISBN 978-92-9234-276-0 © Investigative Journalists NGO, 2013 © OSCE, 2013 թ. 2 CONTENT PREFACE 4 MEDIA FREEDOM IN ARMENIA JANUARY-OCTOBER 2013 6 THE CHARADE CONTINUES: REPORTERS HAVE LITTLE REASON TO TRUST THE POLICE 11 ARTICLE 1087.1 OF THE CIVIL CODE – A NEED TO AMEND, CLARIFY AND INTERPRET 42 THE COMPUTER MOUSE SHOULD BE THE 1ST WEAPON AGAINST UNSCRUPULOUS NEWS SITES 53 THE TIME HAS TO COME TO SMASH THE SHACKLES OF THE MIND 60 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PASSES NEW BILL EXPANDING MEDIA COPYRIGHT PROTECTION 68 MEDIA MIGRATION: WILL NEWSPRINT SURVIVE IN THE AGE OF THE INTERNET 71 3 PREFACE Those interested in the current state of freedom of speech and the press in Armenia will find the following study, the latest in an annual series prepared by the Investigative Journalists NGO, of particular note. This time, we have expanded the thematic scope of the study to include not only acts traditionally regarded as means to hinder freedom of speech - physical acts of violence, and suing reporters and news outlets in the courts on charges of slander and insult - but also plagiarism, which has reached unprecedented levels in the mass media, widespread self- censorship among reporters, the low level of journalistic professionalism, and a look at the challenges faced by the print media, i.e., technological advances and other factors. Hetq reporters have prepared analytical articles on the above- mentioned issues. Attorneys Ara Ghazaryan and Ashot Vareljyan present a concise overview of the operational freedom of news outlets, focusing on such aspects as legislative regulation, physical violence, and court cases based on charges of slander and insult. Regarding such court cases, the attorneys sound a positive note in their analysis, noting that from January to October of 2013 the courts have handed down verdicts that, by and large, have been favorable in terms of reporter and news outlet freedom. As always, however, acts of physical violence committed against reporters and interference in their activities revealed in the study are of concern. “Numerous cases exist when reporters have been threatened, to the point of obstructing their work, without the guilty parties being prosecuted. Even if an investigation of the incident took 4 place, it was usually an internal agency examination, which, in principle and practice, is not regarded as an effective legal defense method,” the attorneys conclude. The study shows that only in a small number of cases has the legal defense of reporters, as defined in the Criminal Code, served as an effective dense method. 5 Ara Ghazaryan Ashot Vareljyan FREEDOM OF NEWS OUTLETS IN ARMENIA (January-October 2013) 1. Legislative initiatives and changes On September 10, 2013, the National Assembly unanimously approved a bill making changes to the RA Law on Copyrights and Related Rights. The aim of the bill was to regulate the widespread violations of copyright law occurring in Internet news outlets and by reporters. It had become common practice for one news outlet to republish information from another either without the prior consent of the author or without any credit to the source; even if the news material in question was fully copyrighted. In other words, many internet news outlets, including blogs, widely violate the copyright privileges of others. However, due to an absence of effective legal defense mechanisms such violations remain unpunished, and the original authors left defenseless. Changes to the law have resulted in more specific and encompassing foundations regarding substantive and procedural matters of legal defense, tasked with ensuring the defense of copyrights in the rapidly developing realm of the internet. Specifically, even though it is widely known that coverage of daily news and breaking stories is not, per say, covered by copyright laws, however, even news reported in such a manner can be covered by copyright law if the manner in which it is presented (“the manner of expression”, according to the law) contains an element(s) of “creative” endeavor. This is a general approach to the issue of copyrights, according to which only the result of creative endeavor is defended by copyright law. On the other hand, had this clause not been included in the law, during court cases the courts ascertain whether or not news information contains elements of creative work. 6 Changes to the law have also defined a two-layered system when it comes to defending against possible violations regarding the reproduction of material. The first notes that quoting material from other online news outlets can only be sanctioned to a degree necessary to “substantiate a given objective.” The law does not define what this concept means, but rather leaves it to the courts to interpret and apply in individual cases. Such an approach, we believe, is equitable and derives from international and domestic governmental judicial practice. First, it is impossible to provide an exhaustive definition as to what is meant by “substantiate a given objective.” Second, it is sometimes more effective to define wide concepts in executive decisions, in order to apply them long-term in an ever changing social and technological environment, especially when we are talking about such a constantly changing environment as the internet. The second defense system stipulates that reproduction of material “must not reveal the essential portion of press reportage”, regardless of the reproduced amount. This second requirement operates independently of the first. That’s to say, even if the extracted material’s amount is small (one or two sentences), if it reveals the essence of the reportage it is enough to hold the one who lifted the material accountable. The latter has no recourse to claim, in their defense, that the amount of lifted material was small. In addition to the noted substantive grounds, the law also specifies a number of procedural guarantees. For example, when extracting news material covered by copyright law, a link to the original source is required, and the name of the print news outlet must be mentioned in the title. When reproducing news material from internet sites, a hyperlink to the source and the domain name must be placed in the title. Changes to the law also specify possible material compensation ranging from 100,000 to 200,000 AMD for copyright violation. After Article 1087.1 (insult and slander), was incorporated into the Civil Code, it can be said that this is the second sector in the domain of civil law where the legislature defines the possibility 7 of financial compensation for damage. Here, however, confusion reigns. When referring to the concept of “damage”, what does the legislature have in mind - both material and non- material (moral) damage? On the one hand, as a rule, substantiating material damage in court is difficult; on the other, the section of any claim dealing with non-material damage is threatened with rejection by the courts based on the argument that RA law does not define the possibility of financial compensation for moral damage. Here, perhaps, there is a need for intervention by the Constitutional Court, so that by revealing the legal constitutionality content of the norm, the Court can explain whether this clause, by which the possibility of financial compensation is defined, in reality serves as a method for the financial compensation of moral damage. The Court displayed such an effort regarding Article 1087.1 when it stipulated that financial compensation defined by this article, in reality, is not grounds for compensation of moral damages, but rather, merely a legal defense method.1 When writing this study, the Constitutional Court issued an important decision on November 5, 2013, stating that the absence2 of legislative grounds in order to receive financial compensation for moral damages violates the rights of citizens based on Articles 3, 18 and 19 of the Constitution. The Court’s decision gave the National Assembly one year (until October 1, 2014) in which to draft all necessary legal mechanisms in the Civil Code and other relevant legislative acts to come up with legal mechanisms for financial compensation regarding moral damages. 1 See Constitutional Court decision 991 2 Reference is to Article 17, Part 2, of the Criminal Code that defines the scope of the concept of “damages” in civil-legal relations. 8 1. Obstructing the work of reporters Obstructing reporters in carrying out their professional activities has been criminalized and is punished based on Article 164 of the Criminal Code; in the amount of 200 to 400 times the minimum salary (200,000 to 400,000 AMD). If a government official obstructs, by using his/her official position, the punishment is either a fine from 400 to 700 times the minimum salary, or imprisonment up to three years.
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